Practice:

• Bankruptcy
• Business Litigation
• Executive Advocacy

Bar Admissions:

Massachusetts
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

Experience:

Prior to joining Burns & Levinson LLP in January 2006, Mr. Green was a Partner with the firm Perkins Smith & Cohen LLP.

Mr. Green has successfully litigated cases in federal and state trial and appellate courts in the areas of antitrust, bankruptcy and creditors rights, business litigation and commercial litigation among others. He represents the litigation needs in New England of large national companies, as well as closely held corporations and individuals. His clients include AT&T, Azoff Music Management, Dari-Farms Ice Cream, Erdman Anthony, Expedia.com, Hewlett-Packard, Illinois Tool Works, Lady Grace Stores, Lindenmeyr Munroe, Lucent Technologies, Michell USA, Minolta Business Systems, Ralph Pill Electric Supply Co. and Sir Speedy Printing Centers. He has developed specialized expertise in cases involving the telecommunications, equipment leasing, franchising, commercial printing and distribution industries.

Mr. Green has represented executive employees in employment termination and discrimination cases. In 2003, he won a jury verdict of $2.2 million, plus interest and attorneys’ fees, on behalf of a female executive employee who was terminated following complaints of sexual harassment. The damages included the second highest punitive award in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in an employment retaliation case.

Memberships:

• American Bar Association
• American Mensa
• Boston Bar Association
• Massachusetts Bar Association

Additional Information:

• President, American Jewish Society for Service, a non-profit organization providing community service opportunities for teens and serving impoverished communities throughout America.
• Mr. Green was invited by the Massachusetts Attorney General to serve as a training leader for trial practice seminars for assistant attorneys general.
• Mr. Green's book, Managing Partner 101 (2d Ed.); A Leadership Guide for Building the Successful Law Firm has been published by the American Bar Association.
• Mr. Green has lectured before business and bar groups in the areas of business litigation and creditors rights.
• While earning his Juris Doctor at New York University, Mr. Green was a Root-Tilden Scholar.

Education:

• J.D., New York University
• Undergraduate, cum laude, Wesleyan University

Awards:

• Mr. Green was selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® (2013) in the field(s) of Commercial Litigation. Best Lawyers® is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey in which more than 41,000 leading attorneys throughout the country cast almost 3.9 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas. Inclusion in Best Lawyers® is considered a singular honor.
• Mr. Green has long held a Martindale Hubbell rating of AV, the highest rating.
• Mr. Green was selected for inclusion in Massachusetts Super Lawyers® (2012, 2011, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005 and 2004). Super Lawyers and Rising Stars employ an annual jurisdictional selection process. Only five percent of lawyers in the state were selected to the Super Lawyers list and 2.5 percent to the Rising Stars list. The listing appears annually in the November issue of Boston magazine and in New England Super Lawyers.

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